Bill Text: NY S07596 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7596

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes the offense of obstructing a police officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S07596 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07596-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7596

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing  the  offense
          of obstructing a police officer

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 195.09  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 195.09 Obstructing a police officer.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of  obstructing a police officer when he or she
     5  intentionally interferes with, inhibits, or attempts to  interfere  with
     6  or  inhibit,  a  police  officer or a peace officer from engaging in the
     7  course of performing their official duties, including  but  not  limited
     8  to:
     9    1. spitting, throwing or spilling items, liquid or otherwise, at or on
    10  such officer; or
    11    2.   pushing,  shoving,  kicking,  physically  impeding  or  otherwise
    12  subjecting such officer to physical contact.
    13    Obstructing a police officer is a class E felony.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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